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As many cores and threads that the processor has. The new Intel i7 will shows as 8 cores and Vista can use them all.
6 cores
1 Core 8 Threads
32-bit editions of Windows 7 can support up to 4 processor cores. However, they are limited to utilizing only 4 GB of RAM, which can restrict performance in multi-core scenarios. The operating system can recognize and manage multiple cores, but the 32-bit architecture itself imposes limitations on memory access.
Absolutely! the more processor cores you have the more instructions the computer can handle at the same time.
Intel Quad Core is one of the newer technologies developed by Intel for their consumer level Core 2 Quad and higher end Xeon processors. Basically, a quad core processor incorporates four processors onto one chip. In theory, you could see a massive improvement in performance from a quad core system but in reality, most programs, (and operating systems for that matter) do not yet support full utilization of all four cores.
The Centrino Duo processor made by the company Intel has two cores. It is implied in the name "Duo" , which can be translated as "two", "double" or "twice".
It tells you how many operations per second your processor is capable to do. The higher frequency is better. Also you have to take in count a number of cores.
Computer processor cores come as single core (one processor), Dual core (two processors), Quad core (four processors) and Six Core. Although apple now offers a computer which can have 8 or 12 cores
cores doesn't matter in windows 7. It needs 1ghz or higher processpr to run.
The Ubuntu/Kubuntu kernel is configured to support 8 processors / cores in 32-bit and 64 processors / cores in 64-bit.
Two. Reference : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888732 Windows XP Home Edition will only support one processor Note this is physical processors, NOT cores. All versions of Windows XP will support processors with any number of cores.